Anna McNulty Taylor

Anna McNulty Taylor, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is an award-winning and experienced K-12 educator, instructional coach, and supporting school leader. She came into teaching through Teach For America, and ultimately spent 13 years working as an educator in St. Louis, Missouri, focused on working in under resourced schools on the city's north side as a teacher of English Language Arts and reading. During her time in St. Louis, she taught high school ELA, worked as a middle school reading specialist, coached beginning K-12 teachers across dozens of school sites, and spent the remaining four years working as an instructional coach and supporting school leader in an PreK3-5th grade elementary school. In 2019, she began doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, advised by Lori Helman and David O'Brien. Her dissertation study focused on educators' instructional decision-making in middle school English Language Arts classrooms, especially amid current pushes and pulls to transform ELA teaching. Anna is originally from Rapid City, South Dakota. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy with a concentration in Russian, Central, and Eastern European Studies from Grinnell College, an M. Ed. and a K-12 Reading Specialist credential from the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. She lives in south Minneapolis with her spouse, Ben, and kids Ian and Zoey. Anna is an active supporter of Minneapolis Public Schools.